motif
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Nike’s Zoom Court Dragon, a basketball shoe with a dragon’s scale pattern released in 2022, was criticized for its $130 price tag and relying on the tired dragon motif to connect with Chinese customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
That’s also why, when “Fjord” opens with soft piano chords playing “Amazing Grace,” it’s safe to assume the song will be an integral motif throughout the film.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Jordan’s mural utilizes the flush mount dome in the center of the dining room ceiling as an Art Deco-inspired star motif, with painted white points extending from it for emphasis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
DFT calculations indicated that this newly formed motif makes it much easier to break the C-H bonds in methane, one of the key steps in activating the molecule.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
I searched for some logic, some binding motif the collection had in common, but I found nothing in my hasty examination.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
Yes, you’re getting a glorified ad for a tech company, but this wasn’t going to have the uncanny-valley, human-repelling motifs so common in all the other infomercials for A.I. products.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
Spread by world fairs in European cities, exposure to Islamic design motifs actuated a full-blown aesthetic transformation in architecture, crafts and decor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
"She formulated a philosophy of art she dubbed 'self-obliteration' based on simple motifs of obsessive repetition and proliferation," according to her website.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
More elaborate designs, including hatched bands, grids, and diamond-shaped motifs, also showed evidence of rotation, translation, repetition, and "embedding," i.e., the ability to build hierarchical levels of signs within the same surface.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
For after 1765 Copley freely adapted and combined motifs from different prints in his paintings, often disguising their origins so completely that we cannot be certain which they were.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
Vocabulary lists containing motif
Poetry: Literary Devices
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 4
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Vocabulary to Describe Literary Devices
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